Handling of broken end tags in HTMLParser

[ezio-melotti]

BPO	13993
Nosy	@ezio-melotti, @merwok
Files	issue13993.diff: Patch against 3.2 issue13993-2.diff: Patch against 3.2

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closed_at = <Date 2012-02-13.14:29:51.045>
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labels = ['type-bug', 'library']
title = 'Handling of broken end tags in HTMLParser'
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[ezio-melotti]

The attached patch fixes the parser to handle broken end tags like:
</label</p>
</div end tmAd-leaderBoard>
</<h4>
</li class="unit">
</li\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t</ul>
</><

[python-dev]

New changeset df5e5eea7833 by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.2':
bpo-13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags when strict=False.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/df5e5eea7833

New changeset 2e66baa1d86a by Ezio Melotti in branch 'default':
bpo-13993: merge with 3.2.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/2e66baa1d86a

[python-dev]

New changeset a349448474ea by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7':
bpo-13993: HTMLParser is now able to handle broken end tags.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a349448474ea

[ezio-melotti]

This is now fixed.